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New York Times, Tuesday, November 18, 2025

November 19, 2025

By Joe Deeney • 70 Clues

Across Clues

1. First female musical artist to have a simultaneous #1 film and #1 album, familiarly → JLO
4. Rebound, as a pool shot → BANK
8. Requirement for domestic air travel starting in 2025 → REALID
14. Body part that might "pop" → EAR
15. Words of understanding → ISEE
16. ___ State, nickname for New York → EMPIRE
17. Soften, as a message → TONEDOWN
19. Kitchen strainers → SIEVES
20. "Don't go!" → STAY
21. Appear gradually from the black, as a film image → FADEIN
23. Industrialist Lilly → ELI
24. Native led by Montezuma → AZTEC
26. A very high price, so to speak → TOPDOLLAR
28. Cereal variety from Switzerland → MUESLI
30. Lead female character → HEROINE
31. Summer temp, say → INTERN
34. River's bottom → BED
35. Dentist, colloquially → TOOTHDOCTOR
38. Actress Long of "Boyz N the Hood" → NIA
39. Gets back together → REUNES
40. Shipped without prepaid postage, for short → SENTCOD
42. Much of Mauritania and Mali → SAHARA
47. Japanese stadium that has hosted M.L.B. and N.F.L. games → TOKYODOME
50. Martian explorer → ROVER
51. Last number in a countdown → ONE
52. Surgical stitch → SUTURE
54. Used a loom → WOVE
55. Related to spiritual cause and effect → KARMIC
57. Collection of tasks … or what 17-, 26-, 35- and 47-Across comprise? → TODOLIST
59. Timeless, to a poet → ETERNE
60. Small vortex → EDDY
61. "Thanks, Captain Obvious!" → DUH
62. Best-of-seven games, say → SERIES
63. Make airtight → SEAL
64. Fancy hotel amenity → SPA

Down Clues

1. Material that's been deliberately thrown overboard → JETSAM
2. Philosopher who wrote the "Tao Te Ching" → LAOTZU
3. Fancy and elaborate → ORNATE
4. Auction action → BID
5. Since → ASOF
6. Just getting started with → NEWAT
7. Martial art with bamboo swords → KENDO
8. Places to live → RESIDENCES
9. Key with one sharp → EMINOR
10. Subject of much Jane Goodall research → APE
11. More alert and energetic → LIVELIER
12. Limerick's locale → IRELAND
13. Fancy → DESIRE
18. They wink and blink → EYES
22. Filmmaker Nora → EPHRON
25. Advertising award → CLIO
27. Southwestern wolf → LOBO
29. Presents → INTRODUCES
32. Punctual people are said to arrive on this → THEDOT
33. End of an academic address → EDU
35. One fiddling around in a workshop → TINKERER
36. Like granola bars, typically → OATY
37. Onetime leader in St. Petersburg → TSAR
38. Newborn child → NEONATE
40. Excites → STOKES
41. Trigonometry ratio → COSINE
43. Coyote's cry → HOWL
44. Steers clear of → AVOIDS
45. Excites → REVSUP
46. First name of the Queen of Soul → ARETHA
48. Quiets on Zoom → MUTES
49. Wear away → ERODE
53. Classic Icelandic saga → EDDA
56. Scanner whose field strength is measured in teslas, for short → MRI
58. Toondom's Olive → OYL